Improvement in the manufacture of ornamental fabrics



P A. DAILEY. Manufacture of Ornamental Fabrics.

No.198.358. Patented Dec. 18, I877 NPETERS, FHOTO-UTHOGRAFHER.WASNINGIONv D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PABLEY A. DAILEY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IM PROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL FABRICS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,358, dated December18, 1877 application filed November 6, 1877.

- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PARLEY A. DAILEY, of Brooklyn, Kings county, NewYork, haveinvented Improvements in the Manufacture of OrnamentalFabrics, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to that class of fabrics in which the patternconsists of fibers applied separately to, but incorporated with, thebody fabric; and my invention consists in a mode, fully describedhereinafter, of manufacturing the fabric cheaply, expeditiously, and ofany desired ornamental character.

pieces or fibers B, applied to and incorporated with the body.

The pattern-pieces may be cut from looselyfelted or woven fabric, or mayconsist of divided fibers, rovings, flock, or cuttings,which arearranged in any required form and in proper position on the face of thefoundation, and then incorporated therewith. Various modes of formingthe pattern-figures may be employed, the methods adopted dependingsomewhat on the character of the material.

When the material is in the form of a fabric it may be cut into anydesired ornamented forms, which are suitablyv disposed on thefoundation, and incorporated therewith by felting, or by the use. ofbarbed needles, in a manner well known.

Thus, in manufacture of a felt skirt, gorepieces a a a, Fig. 2, are cutfrom the pattern fabric, and are then laid on the foundation A,

-Fig. 3, and incorporated therewith, as set ferent patterns, and forceddown into the foundation A by means of a die, B, depositing thereonfigures of any required shape and arrangement; or the material may beintroduced loosely into the stencil as a loose flock,

and there condensed and discharged into the foundation in a definedpattern by the descendin g die.

In other instances the material may be thus shaped in various dies, andthe different portions transferred to and suitably arranged in a largerpattern-plate, from which they are discharged upon the foundation inproper relation to each other.

I have not shown the details of the mechanism, as they will constitutethe subj ect-matter of other applications, and as the general featuresare sufficient for a perfect understanding of the mode of manufacture.

I do not claim making an ornamental felt by depositing by hand looseflock to form a pattern on a bat, and felting the two; and I am awarethat an ornamented fabric has been felted to a bat.

I claim- 1. In the manufacture of fabrics by incorporating pieces orcollections of fiber with a body, A, first cutting, molding, orotherwise forming the said pieces in different shapes, and then applyingto and incorporating the same with the body, as and for the purpose setforth.

2. The mode of forming and applying the patterns by collecting the fiberin the openings of a stencil-plate, and then discharging the same uponthe face of a bat in proper relative position, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

P. A. DAILEY.

Witnesses:

O. E. FOSTER, FREDK. BENJAMIN.

